Vernacular Eloquence

Vernacular Eloquence
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 763
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ISBN-10 : 9780199912896
ISBN-13 : 0199912890
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Vernacular Eloquence by : Peter Elbow

Download or read book Vernacular Eloquence written by Peter Elbow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of his groundbreaking books Writing Without Teachers and Writing with Power, Peter Elbow has revolutionized how people think about writing. Now, in Vernacular Eloquence, he makes a vital new contribution to both practice and theory. The core idea is simple: we can enlist virtues from the language activity most people find easiest-speaking-for the language activity most people find hardest-writing. Speech, with its spontaneity, naturalness of expression, and fluidity of thought, has many overlooked linguistic and rhetorical merits. Through several easy to employ techniques, writers can marshal this "wisdom of the tongue" to produce stronger, clearer, more natural writing. This simple idea, it turns out, has deep repercussions. Our culture of literacy, Elbow argues, functions as though it were a plot against the spoken voice, the human body, vernacular language, and those without privilege-making it harder than necessary to write with comfort or power. Giving speech a central role in writing overturns many empty preconceptions. It causes readers to think critically about the relationship between speech, writing, and our notion of literacy. Developing the political implications behind Elbow's previous books, Vernacular Eloquence makes a compelling case that strengthening writing and democratizing it go hand in hand.

Vernacular Eloquence

Vernacular Eloquence
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 442
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ISBN-10 : 0190252863
ISBN-13 : 9780190252861
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Vernacular Eloquence by : Peter Elbow

Download or read book Vernacular Eloquence written by Peter Elbow and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Elbow examines the role of the spoken word in writing. He begins by questioning the basic cultural assumption that speaking and writing are two very different, incompatible modes of expression, and that we should keep them separate. The book explores the many linguistic and rhetorical virtues of speech - spontaneity, naturalness of expression, fluidity of thought - to show that many of these virtues can usefully be brought to writing

Writing With Power

Writing With Power
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 414
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ISBN-10 : 9780199741045
ISBN-13 : 0199741042
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Writing With Power by : Peter Elbow

Download or read book Writing With Power written by Peter Elbow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-09 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic handbook for anyone who needs to write, Writing With Power speaks to everyone who has wrestled with words while seeking to gain power with them. Here, Peter Elbow emphasizes that the essential activities underlying good writing and the essential exercises promoting it are really not difficult at all. Employing a cookbook approach, Elbow provides the reader (and writer) with various recipes: for getting words down on paper, for revising, for dealing with an audience, for getting feedback on a piece of writing, and still other recipes for approaching the mystery of power in writing. In a new introduction, he offers his reflections on the original edition, discusses the responses from people who have followed his techniques, how his methods may differ from other processes, and how his original topics are still pertinent to today's writer. By taking risks and embracing mistakes, Elbow hopes the writer may somehow find a hold on the creative process and be able to heighten two mentalities--the production of writing and the revision of it. From students and teachers to novelists and poets, Writing with Power reminds us that we can celebrate the uses of mystery, chaos, nonplanning, and magic, while achieving analysis, conscious control, explicitness, and care in whatever it is we set down on paper.

Writing without Teachers

Writing without Teachers
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 239
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ISBN-10 : 9780199766369
ISBN-13 : 0199766363
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Writing without Teachers by : Peter Elbow

Download or read book Writing without Teachers written by Peter Elbow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-25 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Writing Without Teachers, well-known advocate of innovative teaching methods Peter Elbow outlines a practical program for learning how to write. His approach is especially helpful to people who get "stuck" or blocked in their writing, and is equally useful for writing fiction, poetry, and essays, as well as reports, lectures, and memos. The core of Elbow's thinking is a challenge against traditional writing methods. Instead of editing and outlining material in the initial steps of the writing process, Elbow celebrates non-stop or free uncensored writing, without editorial checkpoints first, followed much later by the editorial process. This approach turns the focus towards encouraging ways of developing confidence and inspiration through free writing, multiple drafts, diaries, and notes. Elbow guides the reader through his metaphor of writing as "cooking:" his term for heating up the creative process where the subconscious bubbles up to the surface and the writing gets good. 1998 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Writing Without Teachers. In this edition, Elbow reexamines his program and the subsequent influence his techniques have had on writers, students, and teachers. This invaluable guide will benefit anyone, whether in the classroom, boardroom, or living room, who has ever had trouble writing.

Vernacular Eloquence

Vernacular Eloquence
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Publisher : OUP USA
Total Pages : 455
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ISBN-10 : 9780199782505
ISBN-13 : 0199782504
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Vernacular Eloquence by : Peter Elbow

Download or read book Vernacular Eloquence written by Peter Elbow and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-01-13 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of his groundbreaking books Writing Without Teachers and Writing with Power, Peter Elbow has revolutionized how people think about writing. Now, in Vernacular Eloquence, he makes a vital new contribution to both practice and theory. The core idea is simple: we can enlist virtues from the language activity most people find easiest-speaking-for the language activity most people find hardest-writing. Speech, with its spontaneity, naturalness of expression, and fluidity of thought, has many overlooked linguistic and rhetorical merits. Through several easy to employ techniques, writers can marshal this "wisdom of the tongue" to produce stronger, clearer, more natural writing.This simple idea, it turns out, has deep repercussions. Our culture of literacy, Elbow argues, functions as though it were a plot against the spoken voice, the human body, vernacular language, and those without privilege-making it harder than necessary to write with comfort or power. Giving speech a central role in writing overturns many empty preconceptions. It causes readers to think critically about the relationship between speech, writing, and our notion of literacy. Developing the political implications behind Elbow's previous books, Vernacular Eloquence makes a compelling case that strengthening writing and democratizing it go hand in hand.

Everyone Can Write

Everyone Can Write
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 500
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ISBN-10 : 9780195355871
ISBN-13 : 0195355873
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Everyone Can Write by : Peter Elbow

Download or read book Everyone Can Write written by Peter Elbow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-27 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Writing without Teachers (OUP 1975) and Writing with Power (OUP 1995) Peter Elbow revolutionized the teaching of writing. His process method--and its now commonplace "free writing" techniques--liberated generations of students and teachers from the emphasis on formal principles of grammar that had dominated composition pedagogy. This new collection of essays brings together the best of Elbow's writing since the publication of Embracing Contraries in 1987. The volume includes sections on voice, the experience of writing, teaching, and evaluation. Implicit throughout is Elbow's commitment to humanizing the profession, and his continued emphasis on the importance of binary thinking and nonadversarial argument. The result is a compendium of a master teacher's thought on the relation between good pedagogy and good writing; it is sure to be of interest to all professional teachers of writing, and will be a valuable book for use in composition courses at all levels.

Embracing Contraries

Embracing Contraries
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39076001505317
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Embracing Contraries by : Peter Elbow

Download or read book Embracing Contraries written by Peter Elbow and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on twenty-five years of experience as a leading educational innovator, Elbow offers us this collection of twelve of his essays on the nature of learning and teaching, chosen to suggest a comprehensive philosophy of education. Containing four sections on the processes of learning, teaching, and evaluation, and on the nature of inquiry, this collection--both theoretical and down-to-earth--will appeal not only to teachers, administrators, and students, but also to anyone with a love of learning.